| Author | Message | ||
     Mtjm2 |
Had bad gas ,not out my ars . Now Im only getting fuel on reserve . Getting ready to do a tear down and repaint over the winter ,so Im not in panic mode. New petcock ? | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Just needs a good cleaning | ||
| Ratbuell |
Yup. Clean it. Might get away with just running the switch back and forth a few times, to dislodge the muck. | ||
| Harleyelf |
You have muck. It may be in the switch or in the non-reserve feed tube. Perhaps you can even blow the plug of muck out of the petcock's feed tube without removing the petcock at all. It'd still be floating about in there if you did; best is to remove the petcock, clean the screen and run a pipe cleaner down the little tube after blowing the obstruction out. Blow compressed air through the tank while it's off and the filler cap holding ring is removed for painting, and you may find more muck. | ||
| Mtjm2 |
When I had the tank off ,I ran 2+2 thru the fuel line and ran the bike .Should have done that to the petcock . Assumed the new gas would take care of that . Thats what I get for ASS U ME ING! | ||
| Ratbuell |
....and this is why we always store motorcycles with the tanks filled to the brim.... Air is the enemy. Keep stuff that's designed to be "wet"...wet. I never use stabil or anything like that and I have yet to have an issue. I also only ever drain my carb bowls if I'm going to pull it off to re-jet. Petcocks stay on "run" all the time - everything in "ready to ride" mode. My float needles never stick, my carbs never flood the garage, and my jets rarely if ever get ganked up with varnish. (As an extreme example of the "full tank" theory...I stored one of my cars about 7 or 8 years ago. Full tank of gas, simply drove it into a non-climate-controlled garage, turned the key off, pulled the battery, put 2 glass jars of mothballs in the interior and one underhood and covered it with an indoor cover. Left it there, untouched, until about a month ago when I went to the garage. Drained the oil, refilled with fresh oil. Fresh battery. Unplugged coil. Cranked till I had oil pressure. Plugged the coil wire back in. Fired right up, rock solid idle. Boost was a little low at first - the knock sensor was picking up that the gas was OLD and dialing everything back...but 2 tanks of fresh fuel later and I'm back to 15psi on pump 93 and she's loving life. No injector cleaning. No fuel line changes. No fuel filter change. My "baby" is back! - it's a 1991 Dodge Daytona Competition Package car that I bought brand new in '91, and is documented by Chrysler as 1 of 150 produced. 1 of 26 with my options and colors. And 74k original miles  )  Keep the "wet" stuff wet. It will reward you every time you pull the choke and hit that starter | ||
| Buell_bert |
Nice JEEP in the background. I have a 93 YJ with about 80 some thousand (my 3rd). Just a thing about the mothballs. My Dad used to store his truck in my pole shed during the winter for a few years. Well he put said mothballs in the cab and in the glove compartment and the next spring we opened the glove compartment and found they had chewed the owners manual and the box holding the mothballs to confetti. That's my story anyway. | ||
| Ratbuell |
the 92 yj is the young-un, only 160k. Also have a 92 xj, 235k, both 4.0's. And my 01 ram diesel, 208k and counting :-) | ||
| Gusm2 |
I have to disagree with Ratbuell on the fuel issue, I found out the hard way about leaving your petcock turned on. A couple of years ago I was doing my regular oil changes on the engine and transmission, when I pulled the drain plug from the trans there was almost 1 gallon of very thin petrol smelling oil........I then found out that occasionally on some bikes the fuel (if the tap is left in the on position) will syphon down through the carb and into the inlet ports and then on down into the crankcase and will compromise the crankcase to transmission seals. I was lucky and discovered this before it caused any serious damage to the bike or myself, thought I would share this with you.....now its ignition off fuel off everytime......stay lucky G. | ||
| Cyclonecharlie |
Been there,done that.......Totally agree with Gusm2. | ||
| Buellistic |
WINTER STORAGE Class 101, just PM me for a copy ... | ||
| Dave_02_1200 |
My M-2 is stored as follows: Fuel tank drained. Float Bowl Drained. Synthetic 2-stroke oil put into the float bowl through the fuel line to keep the aluminum and brass parts from corroding. Battery on a Battery Tender. I have some old bikes and they always respond well to that treatment. I bought my 1970 Triumph new and, so far, there is no storage-related deterioration. Also, on bikes with steel tanks I swish some synthetic 2-stroke oil around to coat the insides of the tank to prevent rust. I learned about the dangers of old gasoline the hard way when I left both tanks full on my 1973 Jaguar for 9 months: The gas smelled like varnish and really gunked up the carbs and ruined the fuell pumps when I tried to get it running. Many dollars later my Jag was running well again but the lesson was learned. | ||
| Richsm2 |
those float valves do not last forever , with the valve on and the tank filled you will have a LARGE cleanup job, if in the colder climates i cannot imagine how long it would take to air out the garage, no welding for months. |
